M. Nina Moats

843-***-****

Education: Paralegal Certificate – St. Louis County Community College

St. Louis, Missouri 2003

Various Construction Litigation and Intellectual Property Case Management Seminars, including time management, billing, discovery drafting, patent prosecution, trademark searches and INTA sponsored events, and USPTO events related to foreign patent prosecution

Experience: Keaveny Law Firm, LLC, Charleston, SC

January 2011 through Present

Insurance Defense/Construction Litigation Paralegal

Justin O’Toole Lucey, P.A., Mount Pleasant, SC

April 2006 – December 2010

Civil/Construction/Complex Litigation Paralegal

Responsibilities include: Intake of cases, client interviews, drafting pleadings and discovery; finalizing documents for filing with the relevant courts, including using PACER and ECF for federal court filings; strong case management, drafting answer, preparing subpoenas to relevant medical care providers, scheduling depositions, attending site inspections, coordination of expert/attorney site inspection, review of expert reports and extracting relevant information for future expert deposition preparation, experience with class action suits, coordinating, scheduling and attending site inspections, preparation for expert testimony, including background due diligence, summarizing expert reports and deposition testimonies

Responsibilities include: Drafting pleadings and discovery; finalizing documents for filing with the relevant courts, including using PACER and ECF for federal court filings; strong case management, experience with class action suits, including coordinating, scheduling and attending site inspections, remedial repairs, monitor and research expert designations, including preparation for expert testimony, including relevant LLR information, background due diligence, research and compiling previous testimony history data; coordinating and noticing multiple defendant and expert depositions; interactions with local counsel and co-counsel on daily basis; communications to clients, HOAs and board members regarding status; summarizing expert reports and deposition testimonies

Assisted as sole paralegal on recent Charleston County defective construction case.

MEMC – St. Peters, MO

January 2005 – March 2006

Intellectual Property Liaison

Howard & Howard

September 2003 - January 2005

Intellectual Property Paralegal

Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.A., St. Louis, MO

March 2000 - September 2003

Intellectual Property Paralegal

Intellectual Property Responsibilities for above positions included:

Preparing docs required for filing and prosecuting patent applications, trademark applications, in the U.S. and foreign Patent Departments, through fruition, including disclosures, applications, amendments, assignments, divisional applications, CPAs, and CIPs; allowance docs and U.S. and foreign maintenance fees; experienced with due diligence requirements for mergers and acquisitions and assignment of intellectual property rights in the U.S. and abroad; experienced in IP litigation, including case management, discovery, trial preparation, etc.

Experienced in maintaining docket and running reports and ensuring appropriate attorney and/or staff is handling; experienced in following up with foreign associates to ensure clients’ cases are being handled according to instructions.

Ran global competitor reports based on continued assessment and monitoring of competitor filings; created global market strategies based on issued patents of competitors abroad in order to ensure competiveness in global market

Experienced with various docketing, searching, and time and billing programs.

Personal: Self-motivated, professional, experienced, on time, prompt, dependable, a strong team leader and motivator, take charge attitude and will stay until the job is complete.

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